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[Python-Dev] Replacement for print in Python 3.0

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Sep 3 19:37:57 CEST 2005 
On 9/3/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, it's an ordering quirk in the parser - the extended call syntax
> stuff has to come last in the function call, which means we need to put the
> keyword arguments at the front:
> 
> Py> writeln(sep=', ', *(x*x for x in range(10)))
> 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81
> 
> I personally believe keyword arguments should be allowed between *args and
> **kwds at the call site, and keyword-only arguments after * in the function
> definition, but the current behaviour has never bothered me enough for me to
> look into what would be required to change it.

Same here. If anyone wants to give it a try, please go ahead!

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